The following is a science fiction about consciousness in which I’ve twisted a few counterfactual knobs to make things tough for the materialist. In this attempted reductio, I assume physicalism is the case, and generate a putatively serious objection. It is the only line of thought that has recently given me serious worries as a neurophile, so I am curious what others think.
Next week I’m presenting a
Robert Briscoe and I have been working for quite some time on a paper that synthesizes work that the two of us had been doing independently concerning the Two Visual Systems Hypothesis. Each of us is concerned (albeit with somewhat different motivations) to defend the idea that conscious visual awareness …
I am happy to announce that the title of this post is the title of the first book to be officially accepted in the Springer book series Studies in Brain and Mind under its new editor-in-chief and editorial board. I expect the book to be out later this year or next …
3:AM Magazine‘s Richard Marshall interviews our own Pete Mandik.
[cross-posted at Philosophy Sucks!] Some time ago I was invited to contribute a paper to a forthcoming volume entitled Being in Time: Dynamical Models of Phenomenal Experience. I was pleasantly surprised to find out that I was invited because of my paper “What is a Brain State?” Looking back at …
Gualtiero kindly gave me an account here, so I am left with the problem of what to post. A brief introduction. I have a background in analytic philosophy, first in the philosophy of perception, mostly studying nineteenth century theories of perception and consciousness, and then in philosophy of language, focusing …
